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Civilization has made things better but people are still capable of murderous savagery, even when considering themselves Christian. There's a huge list, the Cru
by antiterra 13y ago
Civilization has made things better but people are still capable of murderous savagery, even when considering themselves Christian. There's a huge list, the Crusades (incredibly abominable[1]), Germany in Belgium, Nazis, European fascism, Inquisitions, Muenster's Anabaptists, Rwanda, Kosovo, heck, even the Mongols had absorbed Nestorian Christianity. Then there's the past century in South and Central America, dirty wars, drug wars, guerrillas, and the corrupt governments that spawned them (both influenced by the meddling of the US.) I'm sure I am missing a ton here, like the colonization of the Americas and the war in the Philippines or all the rape in the prison system that the majority of people appear to find unconcerning.
Take a look on YouTube at nationalist videos posted by Greeks and Turks, and read the comments that show they barely view each other as human. Modern humans are not so different.
[1] Women, even nuns, were raped by the Crusader army, which also sacked churches, monasteries and convents. The very altars of these churches were smashed and torn to pieces for their gold and marble by the warriors who had sworn to fight in service of Christendom without question.
-http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1204) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(1204...